Man avoids jail for trying to use a fake covid test on a flight to Egypt

[crewmeal]

The Daily Mail dug this one up:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Egypt.html

Not sure I'm that desperate to get to Egypt, but I guess there are those who are.

[newcastle]

I’m not sure it’s a British legal requirement to have a fit- to- fly certificate in order to travel to Egypt. He was going to Cairo where the Egyptians require a negative PCR test. If he was going to Hurghada there’d have been no problem.

This assumes his “ dying relative” excuse was valid.

Talk of a prison sentence for trying to dupe Egyptair or Egyptian immigration seems a bit excessive. I’d be interested to know what particular statute he was supposed to have infringed.